These examples matter to show my students that fighting bad tech can win. Community organizers fought hard to bring down the Chicago system.
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These examples matter to show my students that fighting bad tech can win. Community organizers fought hard to bring down the Chicago system.
Michael Williams, 65, was kept in jail for a year based on Chicago's now-defunct gunshot detection system Shotspotter. Prosecutors dropped the charges rather than defend doctored Shotspotter data. Now he will receive a mere $500,000 for the year he lost in jail: news.wttw.com/2026/03/04/c...
I lived a few streets down from the site where the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed an entire city block in 1985, and when I mention it in lecture most of my students seem absolutely incredulous
Truly dystopic.
"we are witnessing the fullest expression of the most inhumane weapons of the century: Autonomous bombs and missiles. Their “autonomy” refers to fact that humans need not be in the loop in any meaningful way when deciding where to target or whether to launch such weapons."
For a while, Anthropic was the Lyft to OpenAI's Uber -- a company with a better reputation but ultimately doing the same thing.
Now the line dividing the two leading AI firms glows bright red.
My @opinion.bloomberg.com column this morning (🎁) : www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
🚨 STOP. This is not just a post. Odai is a real child running out of time. He lives in constant pain and doctors warned his surgery cannot wait
Every delay steals his chance to walk again
We still don’t have the funds
Please don’t scroll away
Even $10 or a share could save him.
tinyurl.com/odai-care
You remember how her energy could light up a room then 💔 it's good to hear your voice in my mind, reading your message @ejalbert.bsky.social life is short and you were such a a good and important force in my life too!
All condolences belong with her close friends and family, but I just miss her wanted to record my memories of her wonderfulness.
My roommate from after college, Caroline (Clabaugh) Sekar,
passed away in the CA avalanche.
I knew Caroline as brilliantly generous, energetic, kind, funny and thoughtful, and obsessed with the mountains. I feel so lucky to have known her some.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...
"leaks have revealed everything from ICE’s instruction that officers can enter homes without a warrant signed by a judge" "to its taking a page [from] Canary Mission’s to label people exercising the...right to protest...as 'domestic terrorists.'"
theintercept.com/2026/02/13/r...
Unfortunately, her voting record on these issues includes voting for massive exemptions to the TRTST ordinance as well, including exempting intelligence management systems like Palantir. Please let me know if you do run for office!
No, thank you!
Flock cameras destroyed in La Mesa amidst surveillance backlash
Luddites smashing machines that alienate them or threaten their way of life
sdslackers.com/2026/02/16/f...
Cc @bcmerchant.bsky.social
A new CA science foundation is a good step forward. Here's hoping that if it becomes reality, it really evaluates the "potential benefit to the health and well-being of the population, natural resources, and environment of the state" including in how it deals with intellectual property.
SD Slackers does the roll up of so many of the problems with Flock ALPR, and any cloud for profit surveillance solution in the AI age.
sdslackers.com/who-really-c...
Dunno who they are, but nice reminder that pro-Flock City Council majority is constantly gaslighting us.
Food delivery robots and Waymos are not our friends.
www.404media.co/serve-food-d...
"A Democrat [Cait Conley] running to pick up one of the party's top target House seats works for two defense contractors."
"Both companies partner with [..] Peter Thiel's surveillance tech firm Palantir."
#NewYork #USA #Voting #Surveillance #Military #Technology #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Police lie. All the time. In paperwork. To prosecutors. To the media. On the stand while testifying under oath. And even when in the very rare case their lies are exposed, they get to keep lying with few if any consequences. This pattern isn’t just limited to ICE.
As a former public defender who represented thousands of people, I can’t stop thinking about the contrast the Epstein files raise.
I watched 1000s face swift, devastating punishment for far less serious conduct — poor, marginalized, & presumed dangerous from the start.
Months after the killing of Charlie Kirk, a growing number of lawsuits by people claim they were illegally punished, fired and even arrested for making negative comments about Kirk.
This is what happens when workers and students stand up for their universities and do what UC and the regents were unwilling to do.
At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Powers out on the west side of my campus and the rooms with key card entry don't have physical key backups. Reminds me of waymos going out with SF power. How about having resilient infrastructure rather than brittle centrally controlled and surveilled infrastructure?
Montreal folks, come talk about labor and research for organizing! This Friday eve at Atomic Cafe.
www.facebook.com/events/88154...
Hard agree, opting out where we can builds discipline and can sends a message -- even if they already have our picture.
"Books were viewed by the companies as a crucial prize...one Anthropic co-founder theorized that training AI models on books could teach them “how to write well””
That's my decade of writing and editing labor.
LLM summaries can cut into market for 📚, Judge Alsup! Not fair use.
Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
CONTRIBUTOR GREG BROCKMAN AMOUNT ELECTION TO DAT $25,000,000 $25,000,000
The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI